Package: at76c503a-source
Version: 0.14~beta1-3
Severity: normal
I'm retrying to send this report with a different email adress since I didn't
get an acknowledgement
yesterday - sorry, if the other report does show up again. In the mean time I
have done some more
tests and found out that "only" the connecting to the hidden ESSID is broken.
If the debian system
with the Netgear Wifi is running and I configure the AP to show the ESSID from
another computer, the
debian station instantly connects. Also in this case the signal strength shows
different results. It
doesn't disappear like before but jumps between 20-30/100 and 2/100. The link
is good again.
So, this is the original report:
I can't connect to my AP any more since I upgraded the driver from
0.13.0+2.6.17-8_amd64. I also tried
with kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64 with the same results. My AP hides its ESSID and
uses 128 bit WEP. With the
older driver "iwlist wlan0 scan" gives the following output, when connected to
my AP, "Wurstmann":
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:03:C9:A3:04:3E
ESSID:"Wurstmann"
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Encryption key:on
Quality:0/0 Signal level:10/255 Noise level:0/0
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Cell 02 - Address: 00:14:6C:A1:77:CA
ESSID:"wild warthe"
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Encryption key:on
Quality:0/0 Signal level:1/255 Noise level:0/0
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
"wild warthe" is not always visible though, due to low signal. With the new
driver "wild warthe" is
always visible at signal level 2/100 and "Wurstmann" is only rarely visible,
but when it's there it
has about 30/100 signal level. Although the signal level seems low with the old
driver I never
experienced any problems with the link. My AP is about 7 Meters away with a
wall and an open door
between AP and station. I have a Netgear MA101 and it has a slightly damaged
antenna. lsusb gives this:
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 07cc:0320 Carry Computer Eng., Co., Ltd
Bus 005 Device 001: ID :
Bus 001 Device 001: ID :
Bus 004 Device 007: ID 0864:4102 NetGear, Inc. MA101 802.11b Adapter
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 046d:c505 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse+Keyboard Receiver
Bus 004 Device 001: ID :
Bus 003 Device 001: ID :
Bus 002 Device 001: ID :
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages at76c503a-source depends on:
ii atmel-firmware1.3-2 Firmware for Atmel at76c50x wirele
ii debhelper 5.0.42 helper programs for debian/rules
at76c503a-source recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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